Learning Goals

• Discuss Race to the Top in Rhode Island; Relate these ideas to T&C
• Design our Adopt a Book Synthesis: Information Pages and Teach-In

Agenda

• Opening Questions:
  • Read Dr. Kern's letter to the Projo editor.
    • Comments? Reactions? Connections?
  • Feeback / Grade access
• Recap: Chapters Tinkering Toward Utopia (Google Docs) Jigsaw
  • Expert groups clean up, discuss, and decide on concluding remarks given their notes for Chapters 2,3,4.
  • Chapters 5, epilogue?
• RTTT in Rhode Island:
  • What are we doing and why?
  • How can we use a T&C lens to understand these efforts?
• Worksession: Publish School, Community, and District Descriptions on RI Schools
  • What questions are you asking? What data are you using to address these questions?
  • Context Report Project Page
  • All descriptions should be edited and published in RISchools by end of today.
  • Next time: How did NCLB and RTTT help RI's neediest students? (We''ll usie our CRs as evidence)
• Adopt A Book Synthesis I: What should we include in our Adopt A Book Extravaganza?
  • Groupings based on Scope of our Adopt a Book research
    • What additional information beyond books should each Ss assemble?
  • Synthesis Questions?
  • Lesson Guidelines?
• Close